Our Preserves, Our Trails, Our Successes


We invite you to visit our preserves and to explore other land we've helped protect.  At local markets, restaurants, and CSAs you can buy food from farms we have protected for food production, forever.

Visit RRCT's Littlejohn Island Preserve in Yarmouth, with a loop hiking trail with 360 degree views of Casco Bay and an undeveloped shoreline with rough beaches.  A perfect place to drive to for a small quiet picnic or bird-watching, or paddle there as a destination in your kayak.

Visit RRCT's Intervale Preserve in New Gloucester, with bank fishing on the upper reaches of Royal River rich with wild brook trout, a short loop hike, lush marshes with wildlife and birds, in an area rich with sportsman's heritage.

Visit RRCT's new Pisgah Hill Preserve in New Gloucester, with planned trail connections to Pownal and beyond.   Acquired in 2011 with more acquisitions to come in 2012 and 2013, our work in 2012 will open hiking and equestrian and snowmobile trails on these properties with a hikers' trail head on Doughty Road coming soon.

Visit the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, a National Historic Landmark, with public trails, forests, waterfalls, lakeshore, orchards and herb gardens.  The 1700 acre property is conserved and stewarded through a unique partnership of many regional and national organizations including RRCT.

Download the Town of Yarmouth Open Space Guide pdf for information on many town-owned properties and river access points like Spear Farm Estuary Preserve, Fels-Groves Farm Preserve, Royal River Park, and Pratt's Brook Park which are cared for because of a unique partnership between RRCT and the Town, and often protected by RRCT Conservation Easements.

Visit the Town of North Yarmouth parks website, to visit town-owned properties and river access points like the Chandler Brook Preserve protected by RRCT Conservation Easements.

Visit Skyline Farm in North Yarmouth, to visit public groomed trails and a working farm and an agricultural museum protected by a RRCT Conservation Easement. 

Visit Bradbury Mountain State Park in Pownal, the Pineland Public Reserved Land in Gray and North Yarmouth, Mayall Mills State Historic Site in Gray, the Maine Wildlife Park in Gray, and the Morgan Meadow Wildlife Management Area in Gray and Raymond to visit state-owned conservation land, some of which was expanded with the help of RRCT.

In sum, we own and care for ten (10) preserves totaling 370 acres.  We protect an additional 2900 acres of private, municipal, agricultural, and non-profit land with 42 conservation easements and trail easements.  We have worked to conserve land that is now owned by Bradbury Mountain State Park and other conservation owners. 

For more detailed information on all of our current holdings:  RRCT Real Estate Interests.


Click here for a region-wide map of solely our conservation easements -- but not our fee preserves that is a few years old and doesn't yet include recent major successes in Pownal and New Gloucester and Durham especially.